Twitter is undergoing additional adjustments thanks to Elon Musk.
The social media network, which is presently owned by Musk, announced on Saturday that it would impose “temporary limits” on Twitter accounts, such as restricting the number of tweets those accounts may read each day.
The CEO of Space X claims that authenticated users can view up to 6,000 posts per day, whilst unverified users are only able to view 600 posts per day, and “new” unverified users are only able to view 300 posts per day. He said that the measure is being taken to “address extreme levels of data scraping.”
However, the multi-billionaire soon made changes to his earlier announcement.
“Rate limits increasing soon to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified, & 400 for new unverified,” he subsequently tweeted.
Twitter users who sent more tweets than Musk permitted each day claimed they encountered a pop-up message saying “rate limit exceeded,” telling them to “wait a few moments then try again.”
A “cannot retrieve tweets” problem message has reportedly been seen by several other users as well. According to Musk’s announcement, the rate limit errors won’t likely emerge until the following day.
After making his announcement, Musk later tweeted, “Rate limited due to reading all the posts about rate limits,” making light of his detractors.
After Musk’s announcement, “Rate Limit Exceeded” and “#TwitterDown” rose to the top two popular topics on the social media platform, according to CNN. At midday on Saturday, the website had received more than 7,400 reports of outages, according to DownDetector.
Jack Dorsey, a former co-founder and CEO of Twitter, has since tweeted a picture of grass and changed the image in his Twitter header.
Since he bought the company last year, Musk has come under fire for the platform’s purported rise in hate speech, the reactivation of far-right accounts, the suspension of journalists, and internal mass layoffs.
A blue checkmark emblem on the site has also been modified to represent someone who has paid for the symbol through a Twitter Blue subscription, rather than the customary definition of a verified public figure.
